Noah Creshevsky

187 years total, Photo by Jon Simon Did Elliot Carter ever babysit Pierre Boulez? It’s pos­si­ble, con­sid­er­ing that Boulez is only 85 years old this year, while Carter fin­ished his 102nd year on earth Decem­ber 11. Carter was in the audi­ence this past Mon­day at Miller The­ater for a Por­trait of the younger man. It was(…)

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No songs-of-summer-commercial-pap-to-get-you-to-buy-beer here, but Sum­mer music, music old and new that I lis­ten to in the hot weather. This is a pretty per­sonal list, it comes out of how I want music to make my mind feel in the mid­dle of a heat wave like we just had, and it’s insep­a­ra­ble from my NY City(…)

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Into this July murk comes the sum­mer Brook­lyn Rail and our music sec­tion. The usual good stuff: a wide range of thought­fully cho­sen list­ings, Steve Dalachinksy’s “Out­takes.” Some things I think are espe­cially worth your time: A must read inter­view with Dustin Hill, who per­forms under the name Black Pussy, con­ducted by Jor­dan­nah Eliz­a­beth, who I’m(…)

I can believe it if it seems like I’m spend­ing too much time encour­ag­ing you to spend your money, but you’re prob­a­bly going to spend it any­way, so why not do so wisely? Hm? Really, this is some­thing I don’t even need to rec­om­mend, you need it—David Bowie Five Years 1969–1973 box set, due September(…)

They’re a lit­tle odd. My daugh­ter has one, and since she’s grow­ing up in Brook­lyn, is white and nom­i­nally middle-class (if only she knew!), a lot of her friends from the neigh­bor­hood and pre-k just aren’t around to come to her par­ties. Irri­ta­ble Hedge­hog record label has a sum­mer birth­day too, turn­ing five in coincidence(…)

Upcom­ing releases you should con­sider: Miles Davis at New­port 1955–1975: The Boot­leg Series Vol. 4: This really is self-recommending, the lat­est install­ment of Sony’s ongo­ing series. What a plea­sure to hear Miles Davis record­ings that you haven’t heard before! This set cov­ers his early musi­cal matu­rity to the elec­tric years, is all live, and will(…)

Mic check, mic check … Appar­ently, it’s on now. As you can see from the time­line, it’s been sev­eral months since my last post, I con­fess. While I have writ­ten tens of thou­sands of words on music, none here. But there will be more forth­com­ing, start­ing with this post (and you can keep track of recent(…)